The oatmeal breakfast runs from 7:30 a.m. to noon at Pioneer Elementary School, 101 East Baseline Road. More than 200 gallons of oatmeal will be prepared for the breakfast, plus 4,000 oatmeal pancakes and 1,200 oatmeal muffins. The cost for the breakfast is $8 for adults, $6 for seniors and youth (3-12); tots 2 and younger are free.

The baking contest is from 8 a.m. to noon at Pioneer Elementary.

The health fair is from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Bob L. Burger Recreation Center, 111 West Baseline Road.

The 5K starts at 9:30 a.m.

A free shuttle will run continuously from 7:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. from Flatirons Community Church at 350 South Boulder Road to Pioneer Elementary.

LAFAYETTE -- Nothing warms up a chilly January morning like a warm bowl of oatmeal topped with fresh berries ... or bacon, or gummy bears, or candied jalapenos, or any of the 130-plus choices that make up the world's largest oatmeal toppings bar.

The toppings bar, along with the oatmeal, muffins and pancakes that have become Lafayette's winter breakfast of choice for the past 17 years, returns Saturday with the annual Lafayette Quaker Oatmeal Festival.

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The addition of bacon to the toppings bar lineup was so popular last year, Lafayette Chamber of Commerce spokeswoman Pat Vero said, that this year's event will include an entire "savory" section featuring newcomers such as candied jalapenos and flavored nuts.

"We're right at around 130 toppings with those few new items this year," Vero said. "It keeps growing."

So does the health fair that corresponds with the festival. This year, in addition to the free screenings vendor booths, Boulder Center for Sports Medicine will demonstrate knee scans using its latest technology. BCSM will also discuss optimal cycling position and bike fitting.

The health fair, sponsored by Boulder Community Hospital and Community Medical Center, will overflow the Bob L. Burger Recreation Center gymnasium and spill into the adjacent racquetball courts.

Along with the oatmeal breakfast, the Oatmeal Festival baking contest -- featuring six categories -- will take place at Pioneer Bilingual Elementary School, just east of the recreation center.

The Quicker Quaker 5K Run/Walk, which attracted more than 1,400 participants last year, starts near Rocky Mountain Center for Musical Arts, 200 East Baseline Road, before heading to Waneka Lake and back.

Vero said she doesn't expect the forecast of temperatures in the 20s and a chance of snow to freeze up the race this year.

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